Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church

Hoyt Garland Harwell, a longtime reporter for the Associated Press who covered key events in the American South, has died. He was 93. Harwell covered the aftermath of the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the civil rights activists protesting against segregation in the South.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak in Alabama next month at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a church bombing that killed four girls in 1963.

An Alabama black church, associated with the state’s fight for civil rights, is part of a group of houses of worship to receive federal grant money for preservation

All year long on Alabama Public Radio we’re looking back on pivotal moments in the fight for civil rights. Many of the landmarks in the battle against…

A group of fast food workers and others are traveling from Huntsville to Montgomery for a rally in support of local control of minimum wages.Workers will…

The national group of mayors is proposing a 10-point plan to end racism and discrimination in America.The blueprint released Thursday by the U.S.…

Planners of a memorial to honor the four girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham say they are nearing their goal…

Birmingham's FBI office and the Civil Rights Institute will examine violations of the nation's civil rights laws at its annual public conference on civil…

More than 1,000 students are retracing a landmark civil rights march in Birmingham. Students from a dozen high schools and colleges marched from the…

The Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery will offer free admission Saturday in remembrance of the 49th anniversary of the deaths of four girls…